Living entities especially in Kali-yuga require encouragement and encouragement is Krishna consciousness.

Krishna's name is like a desire fulfilling tree, full of consciousness, full of bhava, completely pure, eternally liberated and there is no difference between the name and the person

Everything is different but one thing is common for all the living entities and that is the hankering to learn about the Supreme Absolute Truth Krishna.

Ravan was a miser. What did he take with Him ? And what did Karna loose? No one takes containers full of wealth along with them to Vaikuntha when they leave this world.

By satisfaction of Spiritual Master, the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes satisfied. And by not satisfying the Spiritual Master, there is no chance of being promoted to the plane of Krishna Consciousness

Our life has got to be cleaned every second of our existence. If the life is not clean, if the consciousness is not brushed every second, then it gets dirty and as soon as the consciousness is dirty, the reality becomes completely hazy. And as soon as the reality becomes completely hazy, we lose the real existence of our life and that is why hearing is very important.

Money has three states of existence - to be given in charity, to be enjoyed and to be destroyed. If one does not give it in charity or utilize it, then that money will be destroyed by itself

Just as the honeybee takes nectar from all flowers, big and small, an intelligent human being should take the essence from all religious scriptures

I then passed alone through many forests of rushes, bamboo, reeds, sharp grass, weeds and caves, which were very difficult to go through alone. I visited deep, dark and dangerously fearful forests, which were the play yards of snakes, owls and jackals.

Because of mother Yashoda’s hard labor, her whole body became covered with perspiration, and the flowers and comb were falling from her hair. When child Krishna saw His mother thus fatigued, He became merciful to her and agreed to be bound

You may show the stick, threaten, but better art is to somehow or other, even by tricking them, avoid this matter of force and induce them to obey out of loving spirit. That is success of disciplinary method.

Everything within this material world will be destroyed, and therefore one should use everything for good purposes. If one is advanced in knowledge, he must always be prepared to sacrifice anything for a better cause

A saintly person, just like a holy place, purifies all those who contact him because he always chants the glories of the Lord.

Everyone should be, according to his capacity, engaged to some work.

O son of Prthaa, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.

If even for a moment remembrance of Vaasudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is missed, that is the greatest loss, that is the greatest illusion, and that is the greatest anomaly

Clean mind is steady mind. Unclean mind is unsteady. Steady minded people are always liked. With steady mind only we can attain the supreme steady person Krishna.

We should stop criticism. Criticism will drag us to the unwanted atmosphere. If at all you want to criticise, criticise yourself. The construction of our body is such that we can only see other's faults and not our own self

What we think is expressed as words. The words are basis of action. The actions we perform become our habits. The habits build up our character and our character leads to our destiny. This sequence reveals the importance of thought process.

But real festival is when the mind remembers Krishna. That is the real festival. Daily we can do. We don't have to make it known to others, but we can be intense in our remembrance

You are independent of the mind always. It is your mind. You are not the mind. Then you are independent of the mind always.

if we perform devotional service seriously and sincerely, all other things are the by-products. Even the temples, centers,.everything. It runs around these things. Everything comes from serious and sincere devotional service.

Krishna consciousess, whatever it may do to us, one thing it definitely does is it improves our health

if you really give that picture in their eyes, they will do the same thing when you are not here

And one thing you must remember, that till we are alive, we should be ready to see any situation. At the moment the drama is going on.

Try to concentrate with all the intelligence you have. That is the real purpose of intelligence.

Maturity of understanding these verses can never be there unless there is one pointed attention.

If cent percent Krishna consciousness is there, then He will give the gift of maturity. Maturity cannot be adopted. We cannot have maturity unless He is merciful. The onus is again on us. To the extent we do sincere devotional service, to that extent we will have maturity.

to be very mature, this principle that we don't depend upon anybody should not give us the arrogance. Otherwise we become arrogant. So arrogance and self-dependent - there is a very thin line in between. I depend fully upon Krishna but at the same time my humble attitude is there.

We are given this human form of life not to work hard like asses, swine and dogs but to attain the highest perfection of life. If we do not care for self-realization, the laws of nature force us to work very hard, even though we may not want to do so.